This week, Adele Bruno asks us to use string #090 and pair it with 3 tangles: Garlic Clove, Laced and Lanie. The last one was new to me and I love it! I'll certainly be using it more often. And that's not because it's a pattern of Adele herself! ;-)

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Joey's feeling musical this week, so she asked us to use some Chimes in String #121. To be honoust, I found it quite hard to combine these two elements. So I decided to keep the the simple. The result is OK, it looks nicer than I thought it would be ;-)

Friday, 24 April 2015

Were celebrating royals at Adele Bruno's challenge. Last Tuesday, April 21, it was Queen Elizabeth of England's birthday. In Holland, Monday April 27 we celebrate the birthday of our King Willem-Alexander, and his mum's (Princes Beatrix) birthday is on April 30. So... plenty reasons to create a Royal Tile :-)

I used Queen's Crown, Jems and Knightsbridge in string #89, and I'm pretty pleased with the result:

Thursday, 23 April 2015

This week, Joey showed us a nature photo (water tracks in the sand on the coast line) and asked us to draw the string that we see in the photo.

I sort of zoomed in on the photo, and... I saw string #153 appear :-) So, that's the string I used and I filled it with Up N Down, Bales, Nvelope, Jute and Keeko. I'm pleased with the result, thanks for another nice challenge, Joey!

Monday, 20 April 2015

This Wednesday is Earth Day, so Laura challenged us to keep Earth in mind while tangling. She suggested we could use any shape or material we wanted, but I chose to keep it 'simple' in black and white. I hardly ever use circles as a basic string (zendala), so that was pretty new to me.

I used Inapod for (only four...) continents, River for the oceans and Quadog to represent the people on Earth. The result looks OK, although in my mind, it was gonna look more spectacular. Oh well... ;-)

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Suzy Mosh challenged us to use a new pattern starting with X. I chose to use Xulu, but once I put it within a Zedbra frame, it appeared to be too 'light' in the original design. So I added some lines and bits of black, and now my tile has an African feeling :-))

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

This week's Diva Challenge is to find interesting objects that can create a special string. Somewhere in the back of my cupboard, I managed to find stencils for kids (there's only a part of the patterns on the photo):

I decided to use the top of the tree as a cloud and put a little sun to it:

And then I filled the strings with Chakra, Spokes, Chillon and Keeko. That was fun!

Monday, 13 April 2015

Joey is still enjoying Spring (like me) so this week she likes us to tangle Flower Box, or Baskit and/ or Bluebonnets. I chose to put them all in 1 tile, which maybe gives it a strange result (grid va no-grid) but I like it anyway ;-)

Friday, 3 April 2015

An Easter egg as a string, that's what Adele Bruno had in mind for us. Together with the patterns Well, Well-Mooka-Z and CO2 I tried to give my tile a Spring-Easter-feeling, but somehow black became a dominant color. Zentangle-life is full of surprises ;-)

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Suzy Mosh likes us to use patterns that are new to us, this week starting with an L. I chose Lokomotive, but what to put next to it?! I ended up drawing Ixorus. This may be a strange combination, but it gave me the zen I liked ;-)